The Common Sense Canadian home page: EcoEnergy money went to Carbon Capture, Tar Sands – No Clean Tech funding for this year

Clean tech innovation expert Will Dubitsky charges Stephen Harper’s announcement of EcoEnergy Innovation funding winners last month simply rehashed winners from 2011 and 2012, while the are no monies available for clean tech innovation over the coming year. “Note, as well, that 30% of the EcoEnergy Innovation Initiative funding awarded

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The Common Sense Canadian home page: EcoEnergy money went to Carbon Capture, Tar Sands – No Clean Tech funding for this year

Clean tech innovation expert Will Dubitsky charges Stephen Harper’s announcement of EcoEnergy Innovation funding winners last month simply rehashed winners from 2011 and 2012, while the are no monies available for clean tech innovation over the coming year. “Note, as well, that 30% of the EcoEnergy Innovation Initiative funding awarded

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The Common Sense Canadian home page: Audio: Damien Gillis on ‘Multi-Issue Extremism’, Liberal Gas Agenda

Listen to Damien Gillis and Nanaimo’s CHLY host Rae Kornberger discuss how activism is becoming “extremism” – even terrorism – under the Harper Government’s petro-state regime. Invoking new, secretive anti-terrorism laws, federal agencies including CSIS and the RCMP are being directed to infiltrate, spy on and harass “multi-issue extremists”, whom

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The Common Sense Canadian home page: Clean Tech Trade Wars: US, European Union vs. China and how FIPPA Hamstrings Canada

Canada is shooting itself in the foot with the China-Canada trade agreement – the Foreign Investment Promotion and Protection Act (FIPPA). Specifically, a little known stipulation in the China-Canada trade agreement risks torpedoing the development of Canadian clean energy technology sectors. This stipulation calls for no commercial barriers on environmental

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The Common Sense Canadian home page: Water Contamination from Fracking: Jessica Ernst Releases Groundbreaking Report

Jessica Ernst, a high-profile, Alberta-based environmental consultant, has released a comprehensive summary of science, facts and documents relating to groundwater contamination from the controversial practice of natural gas hydraulic fracturing (fracking). The culmination of ten years of research, the 93-page report is sure to cause a stir with the energy

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